Slave Hard Drive messed up after format

In my system I have 2 hard drives. i formatted one of them and re-installed windows xp. the pther one I left alone so that I could keep the files on it. when I was done installing I saw that i could not access my 80GB 2nd hard drive. The PC made me format that too. So I did, but it is now only showing 31.4GB of space for the drive. I dont know where the other 48GB went but but drive is empty. Can any1 help me get all my space back?

It obviously is not empty, you may have formatted the free space and not the whole drive, I would use your xp disk to format it again without the os drive being installed, or you could use the utilities provided by the harddrive manufacturer to format it from boot.

WC

thanx I will try that

Sounds like it was formatted as FAT32 and not NTFS.

there is a way to convert to FAT to NTFS without reformating. i forgot though <_>

1.
Open Command Prompt. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.

2.
In the command prompt window, type: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

lola like i said. i always make sure that i format my comps in NTFS. but what i dont understand is that im buliding a comp for a friend and he wants it formatted in FAT32. why the helicopter does he want that? i just figured he didn't know wtf he was talking about. sooo

NTFS = New tecnoligey Filing System, right?...yaup.

Sorry I was away for a lil while. The conversion thing did not work. the original copy of xp i had on my comp was FAT 32 and I switched the cd drive when I re-installed windows. could that have something to do w/ it? Is it even worth trying to do all the installations again? I don't know much about computers so if its a dumb question... sorry... I just cant figure out where all the space went and if I can even get it back. I used all the data guard tools that came with the thing.

i meant to say the c:\ drive (not cd). <-------- line 2

Did you try formatting the second drive again? Right click my computer and select manage. Then click on Disk Management. You should see your drives listed on the right and some graphics at the bottom representing your disks. Make sure Drive 0 is NTFS, if it isn't run the convert command from the command line to make it NTFS. You will be required to reboot to make that happen. Then on Disk 1 right click the drive and select format and pick NTFS full, not quick. You lose all your data but you will recover your lost drive space. FAT32 has problems with large hard drives.

They both have to be formatted in the same format either fat 32 or ntfs, in order to be seen by each other.

WC

NTFS can see FAT32 so not totally correct.

it may see it but I have seen where their are issues accessing it correcty

WC

they were both in ntfs tried the formatting and its still not showing up. I'll try any more ideas anyone has and I appreciate everyone helping me out with this.

What have you tried so far ?